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Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 138.

The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015)

Crime Comedy, comedy film

Set in Glasgow, the film centres around 50-year-old Barney Thomson, who works at Henderson's Barbers in Bridgeton and lives a life of desperate mediocrity. Barney's uninteresting life is turned upside down when he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of a serial killer after accidentally killing his boss Wullie. The film starts with Thomson, who lives a dull life as a Glasgow barber for 20 years, looked over by the owner James' son, the manager Wullie.

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Holy Rollers (2010)

Coming Of Age, Social Drama, crime film

In 1998, Sam Gold is a mild-mannered 20-year-old Orthodox Jewish man who lives with his large family in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn. Sam works in his father Mendel's fabric store while studying to be a rabbi. He and his family hope to arrange a marriage for him with Zeldy Lazar.

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Woman of Straw (1964)

Crime, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film

Playboy Anthony Richmond schemes to acquire the £50 million fortune of his uncle Charles Richmond, a tyrannical, arrogant wheelchaired tycoon, by persuading Maria Marcello, the new Italian nurse he has hired, to marry the old man in exchange for one million pounds. A sincere Maria endures the verbal and emotional abuse of Charles both at his estate and on a yacht trip in Mallorca, Spain, where they wed, and a humbled Charles changes his will to leave all his fortune to Maria, leaving only 40,000 pounds to his nephew. After his uncle's death at the yacht one morning, both Anthony and Maria concoct a scheme to pretend he is still living as…

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The Courier (2012)

Action, Thriller, action film

The "courier" lives in a derelict flat where he has adopted a mouse as his pet. When he visits his old friend Stitch at his boxing gym, he is contacted by a stranger who tasks him with delivering a suitcase to a man known as "Evil Sivle". The stranger doesn't know where Sivle is, and explains that finding him is the actual task.

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68 Kill (2017)

Dark Comedy, comedy film, crime film, horror film

Chip is a timid sewer worker who is at the beck and call of his bombshell girlfriend. Liza is unhappy with her life as a prostitute and she is repeatedly abusive towards Chip in their relationship, but he is convinced that he is in love with her. One day, Liza's landlord and steady client, Ken McKenzie, shows her a safe that contains $68,000.

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The Blue Knight (1973)

Crime, Police Film, crime film, drama film

Bumper Morgan is a 20-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department who is scheduled to retire in a week. Before he leaves, he must work on the murder of a prostitute in one of LA's far corners. Along the way, he must grapple with vicious thugs, his fellow officers who have mixed feelings about his retirement, and his woman who wants him to leave the streets.

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Men of Respect (1990)

Mafia Film, crime film, drama film

Mike Battaglia, a powerful lieutenant in the D’Amico crime family, executes a large-scale hit on the family's enemies, earning a promotion to a caporegime and the undying respect of his boss, Don Charlie D'Amico. Despite the Don's generosity, however, Battaglia secretly resents D'Amico for passing him over as his successor. At the instigation of Ruthie, his wife, Battaglia murders D'Amico and has his sons shipped off to Florida, clearing the way for him to assume control of the D'Amico family.

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Exterminator 2 (1984)

Action, action film, crime film, thriller film

The film opens with a robbery of a liquor store by a group of well-armed young men, as an unseen man listens to a police scanner. That man, wearing a welding mask, suddenly appears behind the store as the men flee, incinerating two of them with a flamethrower. The survivors flee underground, revealing their membership in a street gang led by a charismatic man named X.

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Happy Face Killer (2014)

Crime, Thriller, true crime

Over the course of two years, Keith Jesperson (David Arquette), a long-haul truck driver, kills at least eight women, following his failed marriage and an injury which prevented him from joining the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He meets his first victim in a Portland, Oregon bar and kills her after an argument in his rented home. When Delores Parnicke falsely confesses to committing the murder with her boyfriend, Jesperson sends disturbing letters to the press and even writes confessions on the wall of a highway rest stop and at the body dumps.

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Chan Is Missing (1982)

Drama, buddy film, comedy drama

Jo is a taxi driver in Chinatown, San Francisco who, with his nephew Steve, is seeking to purchase a cab license. Jo's friend Chan Hung was the go-between for the transaction but has disappeared, taking Jo's money. The two men search for Chan by speaking with various Chinatown locals, each of whom has a different impression of Chan's personality and motivations.

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Black Tuesday (1954)

Film Noir, crime film, film noir

A violent con, Vincent Canelli, escapes prison on the night of his execution. With the help of a phony newspaper reporter and Canelli's girlfriend, Hatti, who has planned the escape, the con takes along five hostages: the prison priest, the prison doctor, one of the guards, the young reporter whose place has been taken by one of the gang, and the daughter of another guard. This young woman is kidnapped to force her father - who, unlike the guard who is taken hostage, always treats the death row inmates well - to facilitate the escape.

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Fear Is the Key (1972)

Action, Crime, action film, crime film, treasure hunt film

John Talbot is talking on radio to a woman and a man who is flying a plane. He hears them being machine gunned to death by another plane. Some time later, Talbot appears in a small town in Louisiana, where he starts a fight with some local police.

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Walking Tall: Lone Justice (2007)

Action, action film, thriller film

It has been a year since Nick Prescott became the sheriff of Boone, Texas, and cleaned up the town. Now, he is moving to Dallas so he can be with his FBI agent fiancée Kate Jensen and her 12-year-old daughter Samantha. Currently, Kate is one of the many people working to put away Octavio Perez, the biggest drug kingpin in the central states.

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Crackers (1984)

Crime, Komödie, heist film

In 1980s San Francisco, Weslake, who was laid off from his job, is working in a low-paying position at Garvey's pawn shop. Weslake has one friend nicknamed "Turtle" who is homeless and is seen throughout the whole film searching for something to eat. One day, Dillard, who is an amateur musician, and Ramon, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who lives with his sister Maria, come to Garvey's shop.

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Inherit the Viper (2019)

Family Drama, Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, thriller film

For siblings Kip and Josie, dealing opioids is not just their family business, it is their only means of survival. When a deal goes fatally wrong, Kip decides he wants out for good. But his attempt to escape his family's legacy soon ignites a powder keg of violence and betrayal, endangering Kip, Josie and their younger brother.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)

Crime, Sherlock Holmes television program, drama television program, giallo

In November 1903, young women are being killed in London, each with a silk stocking stuffed down her throat. Watson seeks help from the retired and disenchanted Holmes, who determines that the victims are well-born ladies, not prostitutes. Evidence found includes a thumbprint, a pair of ladies' dancing shoes, broken glass, a strong smell of chloroform and a silk stocking removed from a victim's gullet.

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A Little Trip to Heaven (2005)

Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, drama film

Before the opening credits, a recent widow is sitting in a life insurance office. Expecting to be compensated for her husband's death, the widow is informed that she is not entitled to full death benefits because the insurance company has obtained video of her husband smoking and attributes his death to cigarettes. Abe Holt looks on as his co-worker convinces the widow that she's lucky to leave with a small fraction of the award she was expecting.

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Murder Ahoy! (1964)

Detective Film, comedy film, crime film, mystery film

An old wooden-walled warship, HMS "Battledore", has been purchased by a trust for the rehabilitation of young criminals. Shortly after joining the board of the trust, Miss Marple witnesses the sudden death of a fellow trustee, who has just returned from a surprise visit to the ship, much disturbed by something he saw there. He dies without revealing his discovery.

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Tokyo Joe (1949)

Film Noir, drama film

Joe Barrett, an ex-US Air Force Colonel and World War II veteran, returns to Tokyo to see if there is anything left of his pre-war bar and gambling joint, Tokyo Joe's. Amazingly, it is more or less intact and being run by his old friend Ito. Joe is shocked to learn from Ito that his wife Trina, who he thought had died in the war, is still alive.

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Sweeney! (1977)

Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film

Detective Inspector Jack Regan and Detective Sergeant George Carter become embroiled in a deadly political scandal. One of the leading members of the British government, Charles Baker, is about to secure a huge deal with OPEC (Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), stabilising the world oil market and boosting Britain's position within it. Baker is a rising star in the government, regarded as a future prime minister, and he is closely controlled by his urbane, manipulative American press secretary, Elliot McQueen.

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